The large scale works fine for your work! It's a real trip 'seeing your work in a museum' setting. When I saw the first picture I thought "Way to go, Harry! You got collected by a museum!" Then I read your description. The works look great big!

hey hey, it looks like everyone has had some fun playing! Thanks for the nice comments about my work along the way.

And it really does make one think about the format of painting. Maybe some of the difficulties i've been having have to do with the nature of the marks i make, a difficulty that turns into an asset on a larger scale. Instead of fiddling with blobby paint to make a small eye, i need to get stuck in with big bold marks to paint whopper eyes! We'll see.

Thanks again everyone for commenting. An enthusiastic painting community like this is so motivating and what makes blogging the pleasure that it is.

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Currently undertaking a Master of Contemporary Arts degree focusing on expressive mark-making in portrait painting with the School of Visual & Performing Arts, Univerity of Tasmania. In a previous incarnation Harry was a psychologist and educator researching personality and psycho-social climate of groups, for which he was awarded a PhD, but he gladly gave up teaching and conferencing to become a mumbling recluse dabbling in oils

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